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How to install XenServer Tools on Linux VMs

Written by Mel Kham on December 10, 2011. Posted in Linux tutorials

Question: How to install XenServer Tools on Linux VMs ?

Answer : Select the VM in the Resources pane, right-click, and then click Install XenServer Tools on the shortcut menu.

Alternatively, on the VM menu, click Install XenServer Tools

Now login as root on your VM Linux Machine

 mount /dev/xvdd /mnt

mount: block device /dev/xvdd is write-protected, mounting read-only

list  the  files onder the  /mnt

[root@hosted ~]# ls  /mnt/
AUTORUN.INF  copyright.txt  EULA_DRIVERS  Linux  README.txt  xensetup.exe

Go onder Linux en list

[root@hosted Linux]# ls
debian-etch
debian-lenny
install.sh
rhel4x
versions.deb
versions.rpm
xe-guest-utilities_6.0.0-743_amd64.deb
xe-guest-utilities_6.0.0-743_i386.deb
xe-guest-utilities-6.0.0-743.i386.rpm
xe-guest-utilities-6.0.0-743.x86_64.rpm
xe-guest-utilities-xenstore-6.0.0-743.i386.rpm
xe-guest-utilities-xenstore-6.0.0-743.x86_64.rpm
xe-linux-distribution
[root@hosted Linux]#

Execute the installation script as the root user:

cd /mnt/Linux/ & ./install.sh

[root@hosted Linux]# ./install.sh 
Detected `CentOS release 5.7 (Final)' (centos version 5).The following changes will be made to this Virtual Machine:
  * packages to be installed/upgraded:
    - xe-guest-utilities-6.0.0-743.x86_64.rpm
    - xe-guest-utilities-xenstore-6.0.0-743.x86_64.rpm

Continue? [y/n]

Done

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2 Comment(s)

Mel Kham

Founder of Unixmen, Living in Amsterdam. Am working in my free time to help people to understand the Opensource and to explain them in easy way how to make the fist steps to the the light. Working day and night with my Co-founder Zinovsky to keep this website live even with less resources.

Nonya

did that but XenServer fails to see the tools running.. CentOS 5. thoughts?
Karan

It’s not working for Ubuntu 14.04

root@ubuntu:/mnt/Linux# ./install.sh

Detected `Ubuntu 12.10′ (ubuntu version 12).

Unable to install guest packages for distribution

Ubuntu 12.10 (ubuntu).

Unknown Debian variant “12″ “”

You should manually install a version of

xe-guest-utilities which is suitable for your

distribution.

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